start wiki at boot up on os x lion

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MediaWiki is not a desktop application. You can't "start" it.

I assume you mean you want to start Apache and MySQL at boot up ?

This is very possible, but depends on which Apache/MySQL you use. If you use the default Apache that comes with OS X, then all you have to do is enable it from the System Preferences > Sharing > Web Sharing and then it will be started right away and also starts when the system boots up (I do this myself as well).

Krinkle17:53, 31 January 2012

hi Krinkle, thanks for the reply.

>MediaWiki is not a desktop application. You can't "start" it.

sure you can, if this were a more typical unix flavour i'd expect to be able to put the command i'm currently using to "start" it...

/Applications/mediawiki-1.18.1-0/ctlscript.sh start

in one of the rc scripts and that (hopefully) would be it. but the equivalent under os x seems to be (i'm new to os x but not unix) to create a .plist file and use launchctl load etc however when i do that i get the errors i mentioned. i was hoping someone had already come across this and knew of a fix otherwise i'll have to go into the mysql start scripts and try to figure out whats offending mach.

cheers,

The Elves Of Dunsimore02:02, 1 February 2012
 
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